Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.