It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

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.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Malice is of the boomerang character and is apt to turn upon the projector.

A clever ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies but a handsome fool is irresistible.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears such as your end brother reader will never inspire.

Oh my young friends how delightful is the beginning of a love business and how undignified sometimes the end

As the gambler said of his dice to love and win is the best thing to love and lose is the next best.

Dinners are given mostly in the middle classes by way of revenge.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.