Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

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.

it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

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.