Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.