"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute."

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."