What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.