it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

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

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

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

There is a skeleton in every house.