On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

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.

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

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

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.