Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

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 wi…

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…

Remember...that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou ha…