Revolution is obstructed evolution.

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.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

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.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

Silence always gives consent.