It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!