Vanity dies hard in some obstinate cases it outlives the man

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means