I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.