when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

It is always better to say too little than too much.

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

happy people have got something to give to the world.