Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.