Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

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.

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

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.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

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