Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.