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

... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

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