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

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.

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

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

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

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.