 But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. |
| It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one. |
| Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. |
| I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor. |
| It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. |
| Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. |
| A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. |
| There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? |
| Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. |
| Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. |
| There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. |
| Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. |
| Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. |
| Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. |
| Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. |
| Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. |
| Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. |
| I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? |
| All farewells should be sudden, when forever. |
| The best prophet of the future is the past. |
