A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

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

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.