... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

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

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.