There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

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.

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

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

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

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.