- It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
- Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
- I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
- I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
- What makes life dreary is want of motive.
- [on connecting] What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
- [on style] Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
- [on growth] Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
- [on truth] We carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
- [on choice] Choice is the strongest principle of growth.
- An egotist is a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.
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