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

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.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

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

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