Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Edith Wharton

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Life is made up of compromises.

Life is made up of compromises.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.