An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.