Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

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.