“No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.”
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.”
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.”
“People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.”
“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
“Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.”
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
“One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.”
“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
“Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?”
“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
“Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.”
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
“Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.”
“You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.”
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.”
“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.”
“Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.”