Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?