What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
~ Samuel Butler
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
