I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important th...
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Have the courage to act instead of react.