Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.