Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
Down with boredom. It has to go.
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.
Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.
Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him. . . instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.