A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value