She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.
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.
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.