Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

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

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

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

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.