Idling has always been my strong point.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.