Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Pedestals are always lonely.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.