A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.