Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.