A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from an artist.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.