It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

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

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.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.