"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."