Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.