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.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

we are so scornful when we are young!

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.