Real divorce takes place without a decree.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.