You can't have genius without patience.

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

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?