The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.