The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

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

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

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