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; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
The moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
The greatest tyrants over women are women.
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
People hate, as they love, unreasonably.
