We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.