He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.