Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

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

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?