I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday. [Pg. 57.]

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills. [Pg. 146.]

It is only life and love that give love and life. [Pg. 40.]

Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation.…

Le mariage est un combat a outrage avant lequel les deux epoux demandent au ciel sa benediction, parce que s'aimer toujours est la plus temeraire des entrepris…

Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Eglise a voulu au moins le desinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.

L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la societe, n'est que l'echange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux epidermes.