Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.