If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

A mutual misunderstanding.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.