Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.

Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do