Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.