When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.
Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.