There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.