Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.