 Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. |
| There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. |
| 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. |
| There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. |
| There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. |
| Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. |
| In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. Topics: Children |
| Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china. |
| Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. |
| Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. |
| Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. |
| A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. |
| We forge the chains we wear in life. |
