Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.