There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.