People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.