Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.