The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
One cannot have too large a party.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
It is such a happiness when good people get together – and they always do.
