The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.