O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.