"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."

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

"Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do."

"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."

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

"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 the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?"

"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."

"People hate as they love, unreasonably."

"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it"

"What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out!"

"If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."

"Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."

"So he sighed and pined and ogled,And his passion boiled and bubbled,Till he blew his silly brains out,And no more was by it troubled."

"Bravery never goes out of fashion"

"Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year"

"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."

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

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

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."

"Follow your honest convictions and be strong."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs."

"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 their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did."

"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

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

"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult."

"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 the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?"

"Life is the soul's nursery -Its training place for the destinies of eternity."