I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.