If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.