Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.