The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.
Cruelty is the only sin.
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.