The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

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

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

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!

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

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