If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.