Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.
Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.