Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

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.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

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