there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation..

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion..

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you..

happy people have got something to give to the world..

Most of the things one worries about never happen..

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power..

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think..

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride..

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything..

Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately..

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own ….

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused..

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them..

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure..

Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end..

You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem..

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait..

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other..

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it..

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave..