Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs..

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door..

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule..

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything..

On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of th….

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean so….

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced….

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my….

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart..

Money and goods are certainly the best of references..

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be th….

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come aro….

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to compli….

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort..

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction o….

How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yours….

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in,….

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire..

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but l….

Your voice and music are the same to me..

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?.