Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.