You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

Nature always levies her tribute.