A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. - Samuel Butler

One great reason why clergymen's households are generally unhappy is because the clergyman is so much at home or close about the house.

I felt comparatively happy, but I can assure the reader that I had had a far worse time of it than I have told him; and I strongly recommend him to remain in Europe if he can; or, at any rate, in some country which has been explored and settled, rather than go into places where others have not been before him. Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good.