Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.
I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
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.