He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. |
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. |
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true |
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? |
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! |
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! |
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. |
I might give my life for a friend, but he'd better not ask me to do up a parcel. |
If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, - how rare its beauty! |
If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul |
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. |
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. |
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. |
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. |
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds |