When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.