If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.