To be happy you must be your own sunshine.

Almost every Englishman imagines he is moral because he objects to immorality--in others.

Never mix your women.

The flowers of fashion have but fickle friends; they are the freak of the moment, much prized today, the more despised tomorrow.

We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.

Woman is the social barometer; she is an admirably contrived instrument for gauging the defects of her generation.

Before forty we live forwards; after forty we live backwards.

LOVE.--A sentiment we all entertain for ourselves, and occasionally imagine others entertain for us.

Life is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes.

There is no impertinence like the impertinence of mediocrity.

When two laugh it is certain a misfortune has happened--to a third.

Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition.

We cross the stream of life at different places. Some wade through the shallows in a drought, others have to swim across deep waters in a storm.

Our predecessors endeavoured to make men into machines; we are endeavouring to make machines into men.

Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small.

All is possible to woman, for woman alone may make herself impossible.

We generally turn the sunny side of our character towards the public; the shady side towards home.

Life is distressing insomuch as we give exaggerated importance to altogether unimportant matters. Drifting along, I have observed that we men and women disturb ourselves about trifles, overlooking in the needless excitement the innumerable beauties which wait upon the way. Every ripple is not a wave, every wind is not a hurricane. Why worry whilst we are still upon the stream? It will be time enough to trouble when we meet the sea.

Woman is like a diamond with many facets: the imagination of man, the light which produces from them innumerable permutations and combinations of color. The character of woman is comparatively simple, but man imagines much and attributes it to her.

Poverty is to happiness what appetite is to food--poverty enables us to enjoy the simplest pleasures; appetite, the simplest fare.

The successful draw us up to their level; the unsuccessful down to theirs.

It is not the woman man can be rich with who is the most companionable, but the woman he can be poor with.

Few women think a man complete without vice.

It is much easier to tell a woman you love her when you do not than when you do.