Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.