If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.