Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

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

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.