How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

An author departs, he does not die.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheape…

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night - a stocking all the day!