Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.