Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Love so seldom means happiness.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it