Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!