To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?