If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.