It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Of neighborhoods benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who, when he had the choice, does not settle in benevolence.

Human beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Everything popular is wrong.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair, the rest is in the hands of God.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking, is to be conscious of out own existence.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

What's done can't be undone.

Straightforwardness without the rules of propriety becomes rudeness.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

A whole is that which has beginning middle and end.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

It is not fit that every man should travel, it makes a wise man better and a fool worse.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

So, what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Indeed I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Madness is badness of spirit when one seeks profit from all sources.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

A principle is the expression of perfection and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!