He who has never hoped can never despair

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.