The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.