A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.