The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
You was a good man, and did good things.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.