The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

I am the cat that walks alone.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.