That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.