the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.