An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.