After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.