In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime..

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same..

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Un….

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations..

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat..

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a t….

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion..

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or….

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor..

The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its….

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual pat….

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art..

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe..

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their tu….

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet..

Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or….

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass..

The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at hom….

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You alway….

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things a….

I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; w….