Our First And Last Love Is Self-love.

We Take Life Too Seriously: The Office Of Wit Is To Correct This Tendency.

Excellence In Art Is Largely The Result Of Attention To Minutiae, And--prayer.

Women Seldom Forfeit Their Claims To Respect To Men Whom They Respect.

Contentment Is Not Happiness. An Oyster May Be Contented. Happiness Is Compounded Of Richer Elements.

God, We Are Told, Looked Upon The World After He Had Created It And Pronounced It Good; But Ascetic Pietists, In Their Wisdom, Cast Their Eyes Over It, And Substantially Pronounce It A Dead Failure, A Miserable Production, A Poor Concern.