You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

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

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.