Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

It is not always easy, for a woman alone.

I can always forgive where I understand.