Bessie-isms:

*More people might find happiness if they didn’t insist on clinging to their misery so completely.

*If you wish to shed your modesty, nothing will work so well as a couple of days in a hospital.

Quotable:

Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes