Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.