Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.