If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.