Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.