In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?