Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.