Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

Who's got the last laugh now?If you will pardon the expression.

Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.

To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.