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

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.

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.

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

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

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.