A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.