when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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.

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

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.