The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it. - André Maurois

Must an artist live in the world or out of it? I believe this to be an unanswerable question. Total retirement, natural to the Saint, is injurious to most artists. They work marvelously so long as there are materials at hand. Goethe has further advice: "Solitude is a wonderful thing when one is at peace with oneself and when there is a definite task to be accomplished."

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

There is an excellent rule to follow; quarrel, not with the person who said the things (you can never be sure they were said), but with the person who has told of their being said.