Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.