“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.