She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.