Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

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.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

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