I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.