To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.