Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

Might does not make right! Right makes right!

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.