a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.