A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

Beware of creating tedium!

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.