Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

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

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

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

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.