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.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.