What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
Life is so unlike theory.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing