Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.