Time is the thief you cannot banish.

The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.

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.

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.

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

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