The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

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

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.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.