There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

It is always better to say too little than too much.