There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.