People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.