“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces...”

“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”

“Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.”

“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”

“The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.”

“When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by hea...”

“I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was...”