There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.