With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.