Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. Discuss

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Why not seize the pleasure at once?— How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?