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 less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
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.