The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.