If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?