Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.