"Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

"People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."

"Don't get the idea the I'm knocking the American system."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love."

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."

"A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something."

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."