We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.