People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.