There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

The best of women are hypocrites.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.