A bird is joy incarnate.
One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.