Fame is bought by happiness.
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.
She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.
Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.
You have the rest of your life to be married. Enjoy falling in love. When girls get caught up in the timeline, it becomes more about the wedding than the marriage. You should be with someone with whom you could elope this weekend and be happy.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.