Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.