The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.