One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.