When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
The man who willeth to do well… we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.