You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.