How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

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

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

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