When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.
Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
Take short views hope for the best and trust in God.
Going to marry her? Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself. It would be a case, not of bigamy but trigamy; there is enough of her to furnish wives for the whole parish....
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.
Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.
Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.
To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!