“Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.”
“The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.”
“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
“Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.”
“This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
“Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.”
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
“Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.”
“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
“Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.”
“The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.”
“I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.”
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
“He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.”
“Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!”
“A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure — critics are ready-made.”
“The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.”
“As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.”
“Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.”
“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”
“Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.”
“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”
“O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.”
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.”
“Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.”
“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.”
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.”
“It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.”