The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.