Let no believing man hate his believing wife; if he is displeased with one trait of her character, let him be pleased with another that is within her.

I saw in this barren garden a picture of life-the life I would live cut off from everything that had delighted me and consoled me in my melancholy childhood. I turned from the window with a heavy heart and avoided the garden for a long, long time.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.