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.

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.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.