It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.