Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.