We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.