One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.