Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.