27 quotes
British novelist (1811–1863)
“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."
on Happiness
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
on Love
"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
on Perception
"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
on Wisdom
"Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour."
on Inspirational
"Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated."
"Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"
"If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business."
on Relationships
"Money has only a different value in the eyes of each."
on Philosophy
"To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best."
"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
on Society
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
on Hope
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children."
"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."
on Writing
"Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb."
on Courage
"It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons."
on Learning
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
"The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name."
