All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.