There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.
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.
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
A bird is joy incarnate.
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.