In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.