If you create a character, you create a destiny.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.