In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
