Silence always gives consent.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.