A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.