I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.