A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?