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.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

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