If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.