That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish

Then sing as Martin Luther sang:”Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life long!”

He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

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

And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can’t resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on...

She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many...

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

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

I would rather make my name than inherit it

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

Humor is wit and love.

‘Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard… ‘Tis the living up to it that’s difficult.

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can’t help constantly crying out to persons of...

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect...

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it,...

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

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...

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

Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose and conquer as you can: But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

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.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

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

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

The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter’s bellA moment yet the actor stopsAnd looks around to say farewell.It is an irksome word and task:And when he’s laughed and said his say,He...

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one’s neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite;...

There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much and sorrowed more Because it hung behind him.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition...

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

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

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Who misses, or who wins the prize?Go, lose and conquer as you can:But if you fail, or if you rise,Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

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

Everyone knows the harm the bad do, but who knows the mischief done by the good?

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

The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter’s bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task: And when he’s...

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

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

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

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand

It’s not dying for faith that’s so hard, it’s living up to it.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Life is the soul’s nursery – Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

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

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night,...

There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore;But wondered much and sorrowed moreBecause it hung behind him.

Bravery never goes out of fashion

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