It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.