A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams, and bla…

His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low.

Je savais que le bien comme le mal est affaire de routine, que le temporaire se prolonge, que l'exterieur s'infiltre au dedans, et que le masque, a la longue, …

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.