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

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.

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.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.