“Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.”

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.

Humor is wit and love.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Don’t forget your history nor your destiny.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.