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

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

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

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

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.