It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.