No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.