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

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

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

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.