“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”

“Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.”

“Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart.”

“The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.”

“What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field.”

“In winter I get up at night,and dress by yellow candlelight,In summer, quite the other day,I have to go to bed by day”

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”