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.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

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.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.