Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.