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.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

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.