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

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.

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.

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

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.