But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.