Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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.