Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound …

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

'Lady Cannon's gone to a matinee at the St. James's. We had tickets for the first night, but of course she wouldn't use them then. She preferred to go alone in…

I am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but cant be helped anyhow.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.