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

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

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.

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