Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.