Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.