The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.