All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.