It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.