Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.