"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk."

"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better."

"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."

"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

"The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them."

"The most destructive criticism is indifference."

"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

"One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself."

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep."

"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope."

"There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep."

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."

"A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact."

"Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better."

"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."

"Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer."

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be "the "candle or the mirror that receives it."

"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."

"My little old dog a heart-beat at my feet"

"Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it."

"Each time you happen to me all over again."

"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"

"Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."

"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."

"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."

"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"

"My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet."

"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."

"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."

"Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me."

"Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair."

"What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath."

"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."

"I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again."

"She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate."

"The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights."

"Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions."

"It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region."

"His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen."

"But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart."

"And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities."