We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.