Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn’t have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
Grandpa says we’ve got everything to make us happy but happiness.
It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
Happiness is a hardy annual.
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy...
It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
The government’s like a mule, it’s slow and it’s sure; it’s slow to turn, and it’s sure to turn the way you don’t want it.
True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.
The suitable is the last thing we ever want.