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.

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

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

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.