Theories have nothing to do with life.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.