Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.