Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.