I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter...

Men love a joke – on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they’d lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don’t leave the world. It leaves you.

Courage was America’s watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul – physical courage, not moral.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

I suppose it is because woman’s courage is mental and man’s physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night’s sleep.

I belong to a different generation, I suppose. The old soothing methods do not occur to us. We don’t like our bruises patted or kissed. And our usual answer to any emergency is a drink.

I have never learned to say ‘gas’ for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say ‘but’ for butter.