I'll not listen to reason... Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
A man is so in the way in the house.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
