Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.