Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.