Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.