Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

Never is a long word.