How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

People make one happy, not houses.

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.