It is tact that is golden, not silence.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.