And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.