Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

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

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

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

Real divorce takes place without a decree.