Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.