Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
A person can't help their birth.
Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.
Frequent the company of your betters.
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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