It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

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

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

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

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.