It Destroys One's Nerves To Be Amiable

Circumstances Are Beyond Human Control, But Our Conduct Is In Our Own Power.

Protection Is Not A Principle But An Expedient

The Stage Is A Supplement To The Pulpit, Where Virtue, According To Plato's Sublime Idea, Moves Our Love And Affection When Made Visible To The Eye.

Be Amusing: Never Tell Unkind Stories; Above All, Never Tell Long Ones.

Lady Lytton Rules Her Husband, But That I Suppose Is Always The Case Where Marriages Are What Is Called 'happy'.