we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

The seasons run with swift feet.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

Money was their God; work their religion.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?