Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.