Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.