The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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.
I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.