Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

There is nothing so costly as bargains.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.