A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!