If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.