Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.
Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly. . . perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.
I don't really know how to do casual clothes