Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.