The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.