Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.