If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

To take the world as one finds it

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.