Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

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

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.