Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Genius is a long impatience.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.