Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
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.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.
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.