A bird is joy incarnate.

Pedestals are always lonely.

Silence always gives consent.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

... the song of the world is all of love.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

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