Bessie-isms:

*It’s good to treasure antiques and old mementos, but use some judgment; Old cereal boxes  and empty containers are trash, not treasures. You have enough tendency to accumulate junk as it is.

*Any house can be a home if you’re willing to make it so. It is when you refuse to let it be more than a campsite that it stays empty and devoid of feeling, a building not a home.

Quotable:

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes