That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.