Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.