For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Wait and hope!

Haste is a poor counselor

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.