Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.