What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.