To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

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