March 2

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

March 3

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

March 4

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

March 5

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value.

March 6

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

March 7

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

March 8

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

March 9

Begin at the beginning, and go on until you come to the end; then stop.

March 10

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

March 11

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.