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 chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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.

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

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.