To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
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; … a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.
In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends…
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away.
His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Mr Moss’s courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.
It is from the level of calamities … that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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 and it is a jolly kind companion.
I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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.