One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

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.

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

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

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.