Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.