A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Politics make strange bedfellows.