Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.