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.

I've come home in love with loneliness

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.