Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.