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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.