Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.