Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.