Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.