“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”

“The only differnce between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.”

“Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity.”

“The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.”

“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.”

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

“...it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...”