In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

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.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

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

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.