Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

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

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.