The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

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

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.