All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.