If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.