Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.