If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

An index is a great leveller.