Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
A woman’s hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
I’m not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she’s there for.
I’ll tell you what’s the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That’s the steam that is to work the engines.
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don’t you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that’s all.
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!