we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

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

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?