The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.