...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

…men never forgive like women.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy