How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.