We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
When there is blood on the street, I am buying.
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Be cautious and bold.
Make few acquaintances.
Faithfully guard your reputation.
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.
One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.
And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.