Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.