You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

Sermons seldom convert sinners they sometimes goad them into more sin.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.