This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.