“Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.”
“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”
“Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!”
“Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.”
“In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.”
“One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.”