All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.’ I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her… I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
