Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?