My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.