Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.