It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.