To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.