If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.
it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.