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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
[ Manners ]
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
[ Manners ]
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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
[ Example ]
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
[ Doctors ]
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I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
[ Women ]
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Who can direct when all pretend to know?
[ Management ]
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
[ Wealth ]
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
[ Ability ]
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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
[ Appearance ]
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
[ Communication ]
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Crime generally punishes itself.
[ Crime ]
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
[ Argument ]
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
[ Passion ]
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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
[ Pleasure ]
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
[ Ambition ]
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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
[ Teachers ]
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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
[ Fools ]
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
[ Fools ]
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