But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.