Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.