After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

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