The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

Pedestals are always lonely.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.