“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ”

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action ”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it ”

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

“An idle brain is the devil's workshop”

“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable”