It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.