Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).

a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.