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

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?