Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.