If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.