Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.