It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.

the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.