Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.