Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

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

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

I've always thought my flowers had souls.