"Don't spend $2 to dry clean a shirt. Instead, donate it to the Salvation Army. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. The next morning buy it back for seventy- five cents."

"These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through."

"The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time."

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."

"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."

"It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

"Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!"

"People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations."

"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality."