Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.