There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.