The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

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

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.