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

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

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.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception