Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

common sense, though she is by nature the gentlest creature living, when she feels the knife at her throat, is apt to develop unexpected powers of resistance, and to send doctrinaires flying, even when they have bound her down and think they have her at their mercy.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.