Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Done because we are too many.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.