Our severest retorts are unanswerable because nobody is present to answer them.
The angels have good dreams and bad, and we are the dreams. When an angel wakes one of us dies.
The man of "honor" pays his bet
By saving on his lawful debt.
When he to Nature pays his dust
(Not for he would, but for he must)
Men say, "He settled that, 'tis true,
But, faith, it long was overdue."
Do not permit a woman to ask forgiveness, for that is only the first step. The second is justification of herself by accusation of you.
If we knew nothing was behind us we should discern our true relation to the universe.
Youth has the sun and the stars by which to determine his position on the sea of life; Age must sail by dead reckoning and knows not whither he is bound.
Happiness is lost by criticising it; sorrow by accepting it.
As Nature can not make us altogether wretched she resorts to the trick of contrast by making us sometimes almost happy.
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
When God saw how faulty was man He tried again and made woman. As to why He then stopped there are two opinions. One of them is woman's.