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

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.