The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.