If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.