... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

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.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.