Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.