Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.