Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.