Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.