To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

there really is a place where kisses taste like apple pie and where stars spill like sugar across the sky.

You are either growing up or going down

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.