It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!