I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.