Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.