Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.