"Frankness invites frankness...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.”

“An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.”

“Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.”

“The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.”

“We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.”

“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”

“When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.”

“He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.”