Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.