The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

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