[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.