No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.