Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.