I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.