When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

You can't have genius without patience.

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!