A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

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

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.