If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.