Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.