Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.