The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.