Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.