Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.