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

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

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.

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

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.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.