Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

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.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.