If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.