while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel..

... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, ….

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant t….

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are do….

This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are mise….

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they h….

Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise peop….

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely….

True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feelin….

The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every ….

I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength t….

there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top of your head. The first is the only s….

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels hims….

there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matte….

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name..

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover..

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim..

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it..