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

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.