anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
Youth is always an enemy to the old.
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.
Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.
It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.