One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.