There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Great men always have dogs.