it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.