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

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

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

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.