I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.