There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

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

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]