Wisdom Is Keeping A Sense Of Fallibility

Everyone Is A Bore To Someone. That Is Unimportant. The Thing To Avoid Is Being A Bore To Oneself.

Everyone Alters And Is Altered By Everyone Else. We Are All The Time Taking In Portions Of One Another Or Else Reacting Against Them, And By These Involuntary Acquisitions And Repulsions Modifying Our Natures.

Words Are As Recalcitrant As Circus Animals, And The Unskilled Trainer Can Crack His Whip At Them In Vain.

In A Happy Marriage It Is The Wife Who Provides The Climate, The Husband The Landscape.

We Are Closer To The Ants Than To The Butterflies. Very Few People Can Endure Much Leisure.