He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.