Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.