It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.