When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.