When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while they are not lost, but pass on down the generations we are indeed the heirs of all the ages.