Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

The seasons run with swift feet.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.