Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.