a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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!