Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.