Principles become modified in practise by facts.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

College is not important, knowledge is

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.

Remember that everything has God's fingerprints on it.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.