For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions….

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of th….

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new….

Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer ….

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense..

Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore n….

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!.

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table ….

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful..

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub..

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing..

Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And c….

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you..

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges..

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare..

I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to t….

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhou….

Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / N….

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor..