Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.