Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.