Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.