An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.