What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.