I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.