it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

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.

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.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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.

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