Happiness is pleasure without regret

Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.