Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.