[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.