[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

A man must become wise at his own expense.