I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Love is something you fall into.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, youre still going to get through the day. But it doesnt make you a happy person if you werent a happy person before.

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

The starry cope Of heaven.

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

We (sometimes) get so far ahead of (ourselves) instead of living out each day that we forget to really appreciate the moment that we're in - even if it's (temporarily) bad.

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.