how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries..

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole hum….

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion..

Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they we….

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin..

And I am a mockery, who was God before..

One is what one remembers: no more, no less..

Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his….

O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself..

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal.

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop..

She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, add….

Punctuality is the thief of adventure..

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being al….

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, ….

To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first….

It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person..

Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar….

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still..

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect..