Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.