“Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.”

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

Beware of creating tedium!

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before

I’m not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se

To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.

But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part,

Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.