Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.