Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.