Useless as a pulled tooth.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

Enemies are an indication of character.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

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?

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!