We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.