I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.