Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.