This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Whatever makes your balloon red, Swopes.

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.