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

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

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

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

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.