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.

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

You can't have genius without patience.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.