Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?