Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.