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

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

Consequences are unpitying.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.