Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.