Life is so unlike theory. |
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. |
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. |
Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. |
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. |
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself |
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it. |
She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . . |
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration. |
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early. |
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy. |
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you |
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. |
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. |
The man who worships mere wealth is a snob |