The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

The Prayer that is answered is not of many words, but of Oneness.

…in the library…surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.