Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.