Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

A bird is joy incarnate.

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

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.