Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

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

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.