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| A good laugh is sunshine in a house. | 1 |
| Adversity is a great schoolmistress, as many a poor fellow knows that has whimpered over his lesson before her awful chair. | 2 |
| Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat. | 3 |
| Could you see every man’s career in life, you would find a woman clogging him … or cheering him and goading him. | 4 |
| Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not. | 5 |
| Every person who manages another is a hypocrite. | 6 |
| Good-humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. | 7 |
| Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day. | 8 |
| Humour is the mistress of tears. | 9 |
| I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. | 10 |
| I think women have an instinct of dissimulation; they know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtiers can do. | 11 |
| I would rather make my name than inherit it. | 12 |
| If fun is good, truth is still better, and love most of all. | 13 |
| If we love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love? | 14 |
| Indignant good sense is often the perfection of absurdity. | 15 |
| Life without laughing is a dreary blank. | 16 |
| Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. | 17 |
| One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. | 18 |
| People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. | 19 |
| The affections of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack’s beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. | 20 |
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| 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. | 21 |
| The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. | 22 |
| The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. | 23 |
| We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper and each make out his list. | 24 |
| We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill deserve entirely the treatment they get. | 25 |
| When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow besides “borrow” or “to-morrow,” his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks. | 26 |
| When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. | 27 |
| Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? | 28 |
| Woman’s heart is just like a lithographer’s stone—what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. | 29 |
| Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtiers can do. | 30 |
| You can’t order remembrance out of a man’s mind. | 31 |
| You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. | 32 |
| You who forget your friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob. | 33 |
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