The essence of education is the education of the body.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
He who gains time gains everything.
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.