God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.