Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.