Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.