In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.