a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.