Bessie-isms:

*A new love lets you soar to the greatest of heights. If it fails, the fall back to earth is much like a real fall, painful and hard to heal from.

*Label your family photos well, with who was in each, where it was taken, and what was happening. Otherwise years from now, no one will recognize great aunt Ethyl dancing on the table at the VFW.

Quotable:

Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which sooths us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.

Edward Payson