Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

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.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.