It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.