The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.