As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

- Margaret Deland

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

- Margaret Deland

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

- Margaret Deland

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

- Margaret Deland

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

- Margaret Deland

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

- Margaret Deland

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

- Margaret Deland

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

- Margaret Deland

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

- Margaret Deland