A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.