From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

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

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.