He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence-of talking without meaning-is never effaced.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.