The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.