"Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and mental faculties scarcely before he is eight-and-twenty; woman when she is eighteen; but hers is reason of very narrow limitations."

"Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes."

"The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he is a fool, and the fool does not."

"Mostly, it is loss which teaches us the value of things."

"The source of all unhappiness is the desire for happiness."