though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

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

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.