Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .