Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.