One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

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

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.