Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

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

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

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

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

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.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.