Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.