Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.