It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.