Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.