We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.