Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.
When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.