I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

A poem is no place for an idea.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.