“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar”

“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee”

“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”

“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”

“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”