Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. |
Everyone knows the harm the bad do, but who knows the mischief done by the good? |
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. |
Fiction carries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to be all true. |
Follow your honest convictions and be strong |
For a steady self-esteem and indomitable confidence in our own courage, greatness, magnanimity, who can compare with Britons, except their children across the Atlantic? |
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. |
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. |
He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. |
Heaven does not choose its elect from among the great and wealthy. |
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! |
How to live well on nothing a year. |
Humor is wit and love. |
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil. |
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. |