The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.