Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.