“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”

“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.”

“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.”

“Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.”

“You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.”

“Each position has its corresponding duties.”

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”