It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.