“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”

“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”

“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”

“The more things change, the more they are the same.”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”