Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. (wikipedia)
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny
A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor
