The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effemin… - Oscar Wilde

The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.

Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.