Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.