Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!