So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.