One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.