great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.