Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.