Forethought spares afterthought..

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating..

the matrimonial shoe pinches me..

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all..

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people..

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished..

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on..

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung..

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them..

what is unreasonable is irrefutable..

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes..

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and ….

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life..

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse..

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances a….

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck..

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; bu….

Laughter is always fatal to feeling..

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others..

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural..

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing ….