Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.