If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.