Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.