all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.