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

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.