... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

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.

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

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

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.