There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.