Sayings and Quotes

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

Morality is of the highest importance–but for us, not for God.

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

It’s nothing,” returned Mrs Chick. “It’s merely change of weather. We must expect change.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There an’t much credit in that