The first duty of love is to listen.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol