A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.