Necessity knows no Sunday.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.