If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.