A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
One can say everything best over a meal.
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.