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

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.