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

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

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

Anger as well as love casts out fear.