It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

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

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.