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

A bird is joy incarnate.

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

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

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

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

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

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

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

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

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

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

Silence always gives consent ...

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

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

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

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

Each separate flower has a magic all its own.

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

Somewhere on this great world the sun is always shining, and it will sometimes shine on you.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

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

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

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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

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

Marriage is a great strain upon love.

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

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

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

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

It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

Pedestals are always lonely.

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

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ...

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

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

There isn't a new sorrow in the world
they're all old ones
but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

Gossip is the social mosquito.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

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

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

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

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

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

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

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

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

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

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

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

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

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

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

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

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

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

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

The song of the world is all of love.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

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

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