Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

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

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.