But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Teach love, for that is what you are.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.