Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.