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.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

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

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.