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 is tact that is golden, not silence.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.