Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

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!

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

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

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.