A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.