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

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

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

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.

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.

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