Just close your eyes—and think of England.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England