Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.

Money is a needful and precious thing