There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Some things are best mended by a break.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.