Business before pleasure.

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.