There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them