If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have g...
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ...
He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller...
Gray's conversation was composed of cliches. However shopworn, he uttered them with an obvious conviction that he was the first person to think of them. He never went to bed, but hit the hay, where he...
A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.
Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?
Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.
It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is tra...
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin;
You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the...
They had grown in three years and were now long-legged, skinny, vivacious little creatures, with little at present of their mother’s beauty, but with nice manners and an insatiable curiosity.
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them , for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure mak...
The answer was obvious. Life had no meaning. On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's histor...
Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamen...