During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.