It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

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.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.