Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.