Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.
Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.
marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.