It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.