Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.