The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.