Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?