No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
Kindness is always fashionable.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.