Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.