Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

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

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.