it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy..

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the ….

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself..

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitat….

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion..

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter..

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind..

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their o….

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death..

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation..

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while..

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason..

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it..

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own..

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin..

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?.

One must desire something to be alive..

moral vanity is the snare of good people..

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resign….

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers..