Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.