It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.