most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.