Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.