Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

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.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

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

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.