What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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.