"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
- Samuel Butler
"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
"Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics."
"There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?"
"Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children."
"If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected with c..."
"Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime"
"If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip ..."