I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

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.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

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.