Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.