It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

Success is a great healer.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

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.