... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

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

You can't have genius without patience.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

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

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.