A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

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.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.