If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.