Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.