Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.