I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses..

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness..

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar..

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody..

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy..

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats..

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise..

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image f….

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt..

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no….

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them..

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good..

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny..

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death..

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation..

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light..

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry..

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business..

Home is the best place to be sick in..