An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!