Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.