One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.