Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

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

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.