Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

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 .

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.