The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.