Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.