To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.