Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.