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.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

A bird is joy incarnate.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.